What are you listening to now?

[Quijote]

What do you think of this, my second impression?:

Yes, that is a valid point, there is something quite massively "slow-moving" under a seemingly fast surface of gestures from the solo and other instrumental mixes. (Arvo Pärt IMO does this perhaps more flagrantly, e.g. Fratres.)
Maybe I have been too condemning of this new work. In any case, it merits further serious listening.

[Quijote]

Spoiled for choice (a "safe" rather conservative choice, but soit):

3 is fun (Mozart/Stravinsky/Benjamin/Berio)

8 the Ardittis

16 for the Mason and Eötvös

18 is revelatory, Charlie Chaplin as composer, and not a bad one on top of that

20 Ensemble Cairn (the re-creation of known pieces + Murail)

Der Ring des Nibelungen (unfortunately with the sung bits )

27 Schleiermacher, Cage, Schönberg (disguised as Reger), Ligeti

30 and 31 for those unknown Barraqué-pieces, which IIRC doubles approximately the works we knew of him (a repeat of what happened with Anton Webern in the late sixties and early seventies)

Thanks Roehre, I'll keep those preferences in mind. You have pretty much identified my own temptations. Now it is down to a question of which free tickets I can pick up via my "insider source". Ah, privilege, such a bane. Hah !!

[Chris]

Haydn - Violin sonatas Hob. XVa:1-3, Hob. XV:31-32 - Alberto Bologni/Giuseppe F. Modugno

I like the music, but I don't think period instruments work very well for sonatas like this. Unfortunately I don't think anyone has bothered to record them on modern instruments. It seems this recording was made in a location with a lot of reverberation, too.

[Roehre]

Today:

Sweelinck:
4 Rimes francoises et italiennes (p.1612)
Psalms 77 and 114 (p.1613)
Psalm 109 (p.1621)
4 Cantiones sacrae a 5 (p.1619)
Mein junges Leben hat ein End (vocal version SwV 324)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Milhaud: "Scaramouche"

[Roehre]

Today:

De Victoria:
Alma Redemptoris Mater (1581)
Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater (1600)

Zimmermann:
Oboe concerto (1952)
Impromptu (1958)
Phototopsis (1968)

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Spohr: Concerto for String Quartet, op. 131

[Roehre]

Today:

Webern:
String quartets M.78 and 79 (1905)
String quartet op.28
Bagatelles opus 9

De Manchincourt:
Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus (p.1560)
Reges Terrae (p.1539)
O Virgo Virginum (p.1539)
3 Chansons (p.1545)

Ferneyhough:
String quartet no.6 (2010)

[Roehre]

Today:

Enescu:
Isis - Symphonic Poem (1923; orchestration Bentoiu 1999) (R3:TtN)

De Victoria:
Motes through the liturgical year, i.a.
O Regem Caeli (1572)
Vadam et circuibo Civitatem a 6 (1572)
Veni Creator Spiritus (1581)
Surrrexit Pastor bonus (1585)
Ardens est Cor meum (1585)

Holliger:
(S)irato (2009)

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
6 Humoresques opp. 87 and 89
Rakastava op.14 (orchestral version)
Pelléas and Mélisande: suite opus 46

Music at the Court of Gaston Febus (1331-1391), i.a.:
Solage – Fumeux fume
Johannes Cuvelier – Se Galaas

Zimmermann:
Antiphonen (1961)

Birtwistle:
Antiphonies (1992)

[Peter]

Bax symphony no.3
Mozart String quintets in G minor and C major.

[Roehre]

Today:

Tallis:
Spem in alium (1580s)

DesPrez:
Psalm 90 Qui habitat

Ockeghem:
Deo Gratias

Giovanni Gabrieli:
Exaudi me Domine (p.1615)

Striggio:
Ecce beatam Lucem (1578?)


Liszt (R3: Sunday concert) :
Les Beatitudes [Die Seligkeiten] S. 25
Prelude and Fugue on the name BACH S.260
Das Vater unser [Pater noster] S.29
Ave Maria I S.20

Mendelssohn (R3: Sunday concert):
Three sacred pieces
Organ Sonata no 6 in D minor op.65 (1st movement)

[Sorrano]

This morning:

Schubert's Symphony No. 3

[Michael]

Right now listening to something on the Beethoven Only station which I can't identify - a very rare occurrence - and it's driving me batty! I suspect it is one of the (spurious?) duos for clarinet and bassoon which I have only played once or twice. It's just finishing up now .............

Yep - I was right, WoO27.

I suppose I should have guessed it sooner since there were only two instruments playing - a clarinet and a bassoon.





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[Chris]

There are violin and cello versions of the WoO 27 duos too. Authentic or not, I like them.